Where To Eat in Dallas for Thanksgiving 2009

Don’t want the hassle of cooking and cleanup? We recommend calling your favorite restaurant and making a Thanksgiving Day reservation. From traditional to gourmet, we’ve got all of your options right here.

Bistro Louise
Highlights: Bistro Louise has a cheese station, a variety of salads and fruit, pumpkin soup, vegetables and sauces, and several kinds of desserts for Thanksgiving.
Price: Adults: $45; children 5–11: $16.95
Time: 10 am–2:30 pm
Reservations: 817-922-9244

Canary Café
Highlights: Chef Mansour Gorji whips up a three-course meal that includes a choice of turkey or pork chop, mashed potatoes, pistachio and fig dressing, and pumpkin or pecan pie.
Price: $25
Time: 5–9:30 pm
Reservations: 972-503-7080

Capriccio Ristorante
Highlights: Capriccio is offering a create-your-own salad bar, breakfast station, turkey station, carving station, and dessert station for its Thanksgiving meal.
Price: Adults: $18.95; children: $10.95
Time: 11 am–4 pm
Reservations: 972-991-3939

Central 214
Highlights: Chef Blythe Beck is offering a Thanksgiving buffet with a "naughty" twist. Items include fried turkey, bourbon sweet potatoes, naughty green bean casserole, and more. $5 from every meal goes to the Resource Center Dallas' Food Pantry.
Price: Adults: $45; children 12 and under: $22
Time: 11 am–3 pm
Reservations: 214-443-9339

Charlie Palmer at the Joule
Highlights: The chefs at Charlie Palmer are preparing a brunch that includes dishes such as eggs Benedict, Texas turkey breast, filet Oscar, cornbread and sausage stuffing, wild mushroom ragout, and chocolate donuts.
Price: Adults: $55; children 12 and under: $35
Time: 11 am–3 pm
Reservations: 214-261-4600

Craft Dallas
The Highlights: Craft Dallas is offering a Thanksgiving menu that includes organic free-range turkey, foie gras and game terrine, sweet potato puree, sautéed mushrooms, pumpkin pie, and much more.
Price: $85
Time: 1–9 pm
Reservations: 214-397-4111

Cru
Highlights: Celebrate Thanksgiving at Cru with a three-course meal. Choices include traditional offerings, plus New Zealand rack of lamb and roasted salmon.
Price: Adults: $32; children 12 and under: $16
Time: noon–9 pm
Reservations: West Village: 214-526-9463; Watters Creek: 972-908-2532; Shops at Legacy: 972-312-9463

Dragonfly
Highlights: Chef Grant Morgan will be offering a four-course meal, with choices like pan roasted Texas quail, acorn squash soup, grilled venison, a turkey dinner, and pumpkin pie.
Price: $75
Time: 11 am–8 pm
Reservations: 214-559-9500

Fearing’s
Highlights: Dean Fearing and his team are offering a three-course Thanksgiving lunch and dinner. The menu includes dishes such as butternut squash bisque, tangerine-glazed turkey, and west Texas mopped beef tenderloin.
Price: Adults: $95; children 12 and under: $40
Time: Lunch: 11 am–3 pm; dinner: 5–8 pm
Reservations: 214-922-4848

The Landmark Restaurant
Highlights: Thanksgiving at the Landmark restaurant features a cold buffet, a seafood display, hot items such as roasted turkey and pork loin, a children's station, and a grand dessert display.
Price: Adults: $55; children 5–12: $24; children 5 and under: free
Time: 11 am–2:30 pm
Reservations: 214-224-3152

Lemon Bar
Highlights: Head to Lemon Bar in time for the Cowboys game and enjoy a turkey dinner with cajun fried or roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, and more.
Price: $15.95
Time: 3 pm
Reservations: 214-443-6043

The Mercury
Highlights: Chef Chris Ward prepares a Thanksgiving feast, with prime rib, marinated crab claws,  omelet station, dozens of desserts, and much more.
Price: Adults: $49.95; children 10 and under: $24.95
Time: 11 am–3 pm
Reservations: 972-960-7774

Nana
Highlights: Chef Anthony Bombaci offers a four-course meal for adults and a three-course meal for children.
Price: $79 adults; $24 children 12 and under
Time: 11 am–2 pm
Reservations: 214-761-7470

The Pyramid Restaurant & Bar
Highlights: Chef J.W. Foster offers a sumptuous Thanksgiving buffet, with choices such as sushi, oysters, eggs Benedict, traditional turkey, and a selection of pastries. The meal also includes mimosas in the price.
Price: Adults: $45; seniors: $35; children 5–12: $25; children 4 and under: free
Time: 10:30 am, 11 am, 1 pm & 1:30 pm
Reservations: 214-520-5340

The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
Highlights: Chef Bruno Davaillon prepares a Thanksgiving meal with dishes such as warm oysters with caviar, roasted organic turkey, five-spice dusted sea scallops, and a pumpkin trio dessert.
Price: Adults: $95; children 12 and under: $45
Time: 11 am–2:30 pm and 6–9 pm
Reservations: 214-443-4747

Smoke
Highlights: Enjoy griddled shrimp biscuits, traditional smoked farm turkey, sage cornbread and andouille sausage, and more at Smoke’s Thanksgiving feast.
Price: $40
Time: 11 am–8 pm
Reservations: 214-393-4141

Tre Amici
Highlights: Tre Amici is offering a three-course dinner that includes roasted duck with cornbread dressing and sweet potato pecan pie. Wines under $300 are 30% off.
Price: $38
Time: 5–9 pm
Reservations: 972-250-4400

Victory Tavern
Highlights: Executive chef Jim Oetting is offering a three-course meal, with entrées such as molasses-brined turkey and maple-scented pork tenderloin.
Price: Adults: $32.95; kids 12 and under: half off
Time: noon–9 pm
Reservations: 214-432-1900

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